October 9, 2025 • 51 mins
Big Ben talks about Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers getting lit up by the Phillies in Game 4, Aaron Judge and the Yankees getting eliminated by the Blue Jays, Maller to the Third Degree, another edition of #AskBen, and more!
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Talk Talk. So I come in here and I talked
talk talk play every night. Some nights are more fun
than others. Yet four baseball games. They made a big
deal about this being the last time there were four
baseball games in twenty twenty five. You have to wait
to the Cactus and Grapefruit League in twenty twenty six
for that. But I lead this hour from Los Angeles
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and from the desert to the sea to all of
southern California. We start there a night in the NLDS.
It was gonna be a knockout night if the Dodgers
could win the late game. The Phillies in town, beaten
and broken, mocked by their fan base after an embarrassing
couple of games in Philly and the Phillies looking to
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the Only time we use this term is in sports
stave off stave off elimination against the Doyers. So o,
dou't off you're watching it?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I was on.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
TBS, so whatever that's worth. Maybe you watched it. Maybe not,
But Kai Old Swarber, Kyle Schwarber, who's not gonna win
the National League MVP, but he'll finish runner up. Kyle
Schwarber Hombert not once but twice. Now, not all home
runs are the same. You know, you have like Yankee stadiums,
like Williams Sports, like a little league field, and then
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there's bigger ballparks, and then you know, Dodger State has
become a hitter's park. He used to be a pitcher's park.
Now it's a hitters park. But nothing, nothing can match
the majestic nature of a towering shot. That actually it
upset Tommy Lasorda because it hit Blue Heaven. The ball
was hit so high it actually skimmed Blue Heaven, and
Lasorda yelled down, what are you doing? Towering shot? It
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cleared the right field pavilion at Dodger Stadium, called the
bleachers for most other people, but the pavilion out there
Dodger Stadium in a three run fourth inning, a game
changing three run fourth innings, Kyle Swarber got it done
and Philadelphia will not be swept a domination situation, a
win over the Doyers in Game three of the National
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League Divisional Series on Wednesday night. There it was the
first schwarp bomb of this postseason, and it led all
of the National League in home runs. Of course, in
the American League had cal Raley, but anyway, nonetheless, Kyle Schwarber,
big home run there, big home run night, and the
first home run the Dodgers have allowed here in these
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playoffs to shorebur course, and it's been pretty good about
keeping the ball in the park. But Schwarber snapping an
over eight skid in the National League Divisional Series, and
he took a ninety six mile hour fastball and sent
it to the heavens off Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Schwarber becoming
just the second player to home or over that pavilion
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at Dodgers Stadium as pops got it done back in
the old days Willie Stargel nineteen sixty nine and did
it again in nineteen seventy three for the Pet spurg Pipes.
You know, it was a long time ago because it
was the Pirates who had a good team, and they
haven't had a good team in a very long time.
But so there you go. Paul went out of the ballpark,
which is very hard to do. Dodger Stadium. Game four
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will be a quick turnaround in the best of five series.
And we played later on Thursday, late afternoon on the
West coast, six o'clock on the East coast, three o'clock
at Dodgers Stadium local time. And the game started here
Phillies Aaron Nola. He pitched two innings. That's it. But
it was really Ranger Suarez who came in and the
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lone ranger on the mat. I had one run, five
hits over five innings and got it done. But the
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we will go. The better story always
in the losing locker room because that's where the drama is.
And we live for the drama. It's all about the
drama o rama. So we'll start there. The question for
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the esteem panel, who gets the largest part of the
Dave Roberts blame Bacon rapped hot Dog and if you've
ever been to a game in La, it doesn't matter
whether it's Dodgers or anything. Outside there's people with carts
and they are tapping the cart. Hot Dog, hot dog,
hot dog. That is what they That's the sign right there,
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all right. So on this one, I've got Buka de Beppo,
Autumn and puffy sticker, and we'll throw all of these
things together and we are going to make some heartburn medication,
because watching the Dodgers off and inspires heartburn. So a
why don't we just start with the man on the mound.
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The man on the mound, you're the big Boffo Soco,
big stud on the mound. You are the number one
pitcher for the Dodgers, Yamamoto. And this is not a
kid's birthday party. You did not need to turn out
to be a pinata. In that inning the Dodgers, he
got an early lead as Tommy Tanks went deep, there
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went and runs nothing. But you still have a lead.
And every inning that goes by where the Phillies do
not score, the tight took his syndrome works for those guys.
Get a little bit tighter, and a little bit tighter
and a little bit tighter, so he needed Yabam Mooto
to go Einstein brothers serve up a bunch of bagels
on the scoreboard. Now, he did start out pretty good,
retired nine of the first ten hitters. Then in the
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fourth inning, right then in the fourth inning, how did
that go? Not good? He wandered into a Buca di
beppo kitchen. I didn't know they had this at Dodger State.
Apparently do they got everything else there, So they have
a Buka di beppo kitchen. And Yamamoto walked in there
and he put on some cooking clothes, you know, you
had the cooking hat, the whole thing. And he actually
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served up a meatball. And I want to embellish it
because you know talk Rado can embellish it. It was
the size and I'm not going to go bigger. It
was the size of Jupiter. And Schwarbert put on a
bib and very odd to see this. You don't know
what this is. But Kyles swarb one of the BattleBox
he had a bib on and he smashed it to
the moon, to the moon, and suddenly the entire vibe
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flipped on the game. The ball actually landed. We checked
with NASA. It landed somewhere in Pasadena. The baseball landed
somewhere in Pasadena, and so it wasn't just Yamamoto the
Dodger bats mister seven hundred million dollar man show. Hel
Tani had as many hits as you and I had
zero for five. He's batting a buck seventy four, a
buck seventy four in this playoffs. It is Freddie Freeman,
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oh for three, Freddy's batt in two twenty two, and
it's a quarter of the side of the devil. And
those are a couple of your superstars the Philly you
give credit where credits You mentioned Rangers four as the
lone ranger who came in after Aaron Nola started, pitched
a couple innings and shut the Dodger lineup down, mowed
them down like child's play. And it's always fun when
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the Dodgers do not play one of the plus because
this era, you see Dave Roberts over there with that
we'll figure it out later. A look on his face, right, Roberts,
always standing there like waiting for a door dash delivery
from Emmy Femi, rather from Femi to give him the
door dash. No urgency, right, vintage. Now, as for the Phillies,
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I would like to nip something in the bud. Right now,
I'm partaking in some of the some of the narrative
coming out of Dodgers Stadium and a lot of the bloviating,
cheese steak loving pretzel eating Philadelphia sportsmans are like, Wow,
the Phillies have all the momentum. Now They've got all
the momentum. The only momentum I know is Uncle Mo,
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and he lives over in Jersey. I used to know
this guy named Ozzie momentum, but he kind of retired
from the show, so I don't know any other momentum
in that Momentum does not exist in sports. I will
die on that mountain because I'm right and everyone else
is an idiot. Momentum is simply an after the fact explanation.
If you believe in momentum, then the Dodgers should have
won this game. They had all the momentum. They won
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the first two games. They had nothing leading this game. You,
I'm a motor retired nine of the first ten batters.
There is no such thing as momentum. It is merely
an explanation for after the fact. Meaning is ignored. When
the team that is alleged to have all the momentum loses.
For example, we'll get to the American League later on
next hour. But the Yankees. I was told by Derek
Jeter on Fox that Yankees had all the momentum in
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that series because they won. They scored a bunch of
runs late in the blowout Game two, and then they
came back in one Game three, And so how'd that
work out?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It doesn't exist, all right. Now, now we get to
the good stuff. Now here's a batting practice fastball. As
a longtime radio professional text me from another location, Mallor.
He says, your night is made, and I said, you
know what, You're right. We had the rare and appropriate
sighting of playoff Kershaw. I am still getting messages from
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you idiots about a monologue I did when the Dodgers
did a mock state funeral when kurshed up it's just
final Hope game, and I pointed out what a failure
Kershaw has been as a Dodger. I was still got
a name of it this week. I got an email
the other day a couple day from so Oh, I heard
your monologue. You know always sar I used to like
your show, but which means you never liked my show, right,
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you never liked my show? But whatever. Fine. So Kershaw
was brought in. He was tasked with the Dodgers were trailing.
He was tasked with keeping la within arm's length, to
keep them in the game down three to one, give
them an opportunity, allow them a chance to come back
in the game. Against the Phillies, bullpen, set up the
choke factor. How do you set the choke factor up?
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You're within striking distance and that's what you gotta do. Okay,
So that was what he was asked to do. Kershaw say,
you know what I like charity. I'm going to be charitable.
And you get a hit, You get a hit, you
get a home run, you get a home run. You yeah,
the whole thing. The Philly hitters I actually saw on
the Turner broadcast. Their eyeballs looked like saucers. It was
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like saucers, very accommodating Clayton Kershaw. In fact, six of
the Phillies twelve hits, half of the hits for the
entire gate came against playoff Kershaw, Are you idiots defending
this guy? He got absolutely shelled your little hero got shelled,
Your little God, your little Demi God got shelled. J
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t Riamuto and Kyle Swarber hit bombs. Just classic, just classic. Anyway,
here is Clayton Kershaw pointing out that he was bad.
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Oh it's just a tough yeah, tough couple of the.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Seventh get played by Tayo. And then yeah, I just
didn't make enough good pitchres I was battling command. You know,
it's it's hard for you're trying to throw strikes as
opposed to get people out.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
So that was.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, just wasn't a funny okay, just not a funny thing.
All right, here's the question, how did you react to
Clayton Kershaw wetting the bed? He wetted the bed yet
again at Dodger Stadium in October. So that was nostalgic
with the Capitol n and it's fitting that should be
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his final outing as a Dodger. That should be it.
Either they're gonna get gonna lose this series, the Phillies
gonna come back and win the next two games and
Kershaw should go away retire after that, or the Dodgers
win this series and Kershaw should not be on the
roster in the National League Championship Series. He's washed up.
But if you want to break it down even deeper,
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you know what that really was. Watching Clayton Kershaw on
the mound in October baseball. That is autumn in Los Angeles.
It is autumn in Los Angeles. Now the rest of
the country gets pumpkin spice lattes, you get crisp cool air,
you get leaves changing colors, the signs of the seasons
in Los Angeles. You know that it's autumn when Clayton
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Kershaw is writing the vomit comet over the skies around
Dodger State, and that is autumn in La Clayton Kershaw
come boom to the boom, just like that. At this point,
it's muscle memory for Clayton Kershaft's like he can do
it blindfolded. It even looks like he's blindfolded on the
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mound in every October. The man steps on the mound,
He's got the shoulders slump, the face looks like he
just found out someone keyed his brand new tesla. You know,
Kershaw's serving up for right down the middle, right down
the middle, batting practice fastballs. He called those the five
thirty fastballs right down the middle and the phillies. They
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weren't so much swinging bats up there. They were swinging
tennis rackets, is what they were doing. And despite this
rich catalog of suck, every single time it is the
most fascinating thing the study of hero worship. Every single
time the Kershaw apologist in southern California crawl out from
under their palm trees and they give the same speech.
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I'll give out the number here and you know, I'll
open up her phone calls. Of course, the Kershaw Marching
and Shadows Society won't call in because there's really nothing
you can say. But I know the speech anyway. I've
heard it so many times over the last fifteen years.
I don't need you to call up and give me
the speech.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
It's well yeah but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but
he's a Hall of Famer, yeah but yeah, but yeah,
he's done so much for the city. Yeah but yeah, yeah,
or you have it's Dave Roberts fault. Yeah but yeah,
but yeah, but yeah. Okay, I've heard it all. I've
heard it all. I've seen it all.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Okay, right, so he did a lot for the city, great,
so did the guy who invented the snuggie. Uh, you
want to put him in the Hall of Fame doesn't
mean I want him pitching in a postseason game. I don't.
I don't. I doubt the mayor of Barf City. And
the numbers since twenty twenty three, Kershaw's era in the
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postseason is horrific. Since twenty eighteen, he's got an ERA
five point one, and since twenty twenty three has earnedrun
average is forty two point eight. That's not a misprint.
Forty two point eight postseason era since the start of
the twenty twenty three postseason. That is baseball armageddon. And
the body of language with Kershaw is another great part
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of this. Right. Nobody does it better the I just
gave up another bomb face than Clayton Kershaw. He's got
it down. It is art. It is performance art by
Clayton Kershaw. Head down, that little lip twitch thing that
he's got, a little shuffle around the mound. You cue
the organ music, the mock funeral and as Jim Nantz
would say, tradition unlike any other now that would be
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that should be it. And they're gonna give him like
seven statues because the Dodgers are all about that action now,
So why not give Kershaw a statue of him with
the head down, the shoulder shrug and all that worst
big game picture of the modern era. And it's not
even close. The guy is a picasso on a Wednesday
night against the Rock He's at Dodger Stadium and against
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the Phillies in a playoff game in October on a
Wednesday night. It's a finger painting. It's a kindergarten piece
of art, is what it is. And they had to
dig up the mound after every postseason Shelley. It's essentially
a crime scene when kurshuts out, so bad, guys, he bad,
all right? Last word to Chicago, we go And this
was not a closed out game. It could have been,
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but believe it or not, the Cubbies for ya, Femi
and Eugene in Chicago, and Tree and all my guys
in the mallad militia there in Chicago. The Cubs showed
that they are not ready to just roll over and
go on vacation and go down to CanCon Tee times
on hold, as Chicago put up a four run spot
on the Brewers start at Quinn Priester in the first thing.
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But this series, what is going on? All these runs
scored early and then not a whole bunch of runs
scored after that. But Quinn Priester on the mound was
amazing for the Brewers in the regular season in the
first inning and then the Cubs had to hold on.
They scored all of their runs in the first inning
and did just enough to win by the hair on
their chinny chin chin as they got a strong effort
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from the bullpen there the Brewers, but not enough so
they couldn't come all the way back four to three
the final in favor of the team from Chicago. So
we get a game four later on on Thursday. Now,
after the game, Quinn Priester, he played the blame game.
He pointed the finger entirely at himself. He said, quote
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everyone else played real well, with the exception of myself.
That's entirely on me. Close quote all right, question, does
Brewers starter Quinn Priester taking the blame work for you?
So the way I'll answer this is, I do enjoy
athletes just admitting they sucked. I think that's important. I'll
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give you a puffy sticker for owning it. That said,
it does not change the fact that he shriveled up
like a grape in the sun. Who this is a
guy that had been big balls, Bob our guy from Vegas,
big balls all regular season. And so I'll give you
a little bit of a golf clap. I'll call you
a mensch. Congratulations. You're a bench for saying that they
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don't hand out like parade floats and all that for
quality quotes. In Milwaukee had opportunities like they were playing
with matches. Eventually they got burned here and now they
got to sweat it out. Right, Now you got to
sweat it out. You get you know, game four suddenly
becomes a bigger deal. I would play Game four like
it's Game five and you have Game five in your
back pocket. But the Cubs, now they can smell blood
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in the ivy. Should not be blood in the ivy.
Maybe Doc Mike puts them out there in the ivy.
But Chicago, they've turned this thing into a little bit
more of a street fight. Not quite there yet. There
is no such thing as momentum. But in terms of
circling back to Quinn Priester taking the blame and all that,
a guy that dominated during the regular season. Remember, as
the baseball marketing slogan from years ago went, legends are
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born in October. Well, legends also die in October. If
you want reference, look at Clayton Kershaw for an example.
So you've got to do better, and you've got to
be better, and there's no guarantee this guy gets another start.
That could all she wrote. That could be the end
of the road in terms of playoff baseball for Quinn Priester.
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We talked a lot about the National League as the
Phillies and the Cubs stay alive. So we will get
game fours in the National League. But we'll start out
here in the Bronx the Hour of American League Divisional
Championship Series baseball. And we'll start out with a game
that could have ended at all, Game four of the
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American League Divisional Series. There the Yankees looking to beat
the Blue Jays and force a winner take all game
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astro George Springer each drove in a run, and eight
Toronto pitchers, eight Toronto pitchers shut down the mighty New
York Yankees lineup five to two the final on Wednesday night.
Than that sent the Blue Jays flying high to the
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American League Championship Series. They've reached the final four for
the first time in nine years. Toronto smacked out twelve
hits in smothering the Yankees. The a L East champion
Toronto Blue Jays. Well, now move on. They take the
divisional series three games to one. They will host game
number one in best of seven American League Championship Series.
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That'll be on Sunday. We'll be watching football, but they'll
be playing baseball there against either the Tigers or the
Seattle Mariners, and those teams are set to decide their
playoff series. That'll be on Friday night in game number five,
Game number five there in Seattle. More on that in
a minute. But the better story as we talk Yankees
and Blue Jays is in lou using locker room. And
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it's always a special time when the Yankees lose in
the playoffs. I know Supermarket Steve always looks forward to it.
He can't get enough of it. So let us discuss
the question. We'll focus in on the big Ragou, the
big ragu for the Yankees. So what does this latest
playoff loss due for airin Judges Yankees resume? What does
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it do? You go to his Wikipedia page, you go
to his Baseball reference page. What does this do? So
I've got rewriting, academia and Nintendo, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are gonna make
your Babushka's favorite soggy nachos, soggy ballpark nachos. Yeah. See,
the nachos are like it's like my theory on fast food,
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and I'm never wrong about this. I'm never My theory
on fast food is every second that goes by once
you pick up your food. Like I used to eat
fast food all time, but when you get the fast food,
you've got to eat it right away because every second
it goes it degrades. The quality of the meal goes down,
similar to nachos. Like it's like when I was a kid,
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my mom used to make she give me cereal, like
give most kids you get cereal when you're a kid,
and I would get it and it would always bother
me because I had to eat it so fast, because
you don't want to eat soggy cereal because the milk and
the cereal. So nachos are the same thing. But back
to the point, So what does this latest playoff loss
do for Aaron Judges Yankees resume so number Aaron Judge
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is a magician? Can we all agree on that? Does
anyone disagree? Anybody in the back of the room disagree?
Aaron Judge is a magician. He is untract to do
the impossible. They and imaginable, the most mind blowing trick around.
Have a full career wearing pinstripes and get no bling,
bling abra caudabra, hocus pocus. It's wild. It is insane
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to the that here we are and Judge has already
passed his athletic prime and has nothing in terms of championships,
which is how you are judged as a Yankee. Now
here's Aaron Jude, but we'll go into the locker room.
Here's Aaron Judge talking about yet another ending to a
Yankee season that ended the wrong way. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
No, I like our chances, and I like our chances
all year as a special group. And it just sucks
for the guys that, yes, it might be their last
time wearing Fenn shripes. You know, I get a chance
to have a long run with him and in the championship.
You know, especially to the fans all year that have
been you know, showing up supporting us, even these postseason games,
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even when we would get down, you know, they stayed
right in their seats, you know, cheering us on. So
it's just disappointed. We let all those guys down.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So it's pretty standard, pretty standard there from Aaron Judge
or the captain of the Yankees. It is ironic that
John Hayman and one of the great f ups ever
by a baseball insider when he reported that Arson Judge
was going to the Giants, but yet in the playoffs
for the Yankees, the teams Aaron Judge plays for. It's
an Arson job at least, though I'm gonna be Benny
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Bright's people say to negative Malor, I'll be Benny Bright's
ot here, because it's not all bad for Aaron Judge,
at least. According to Fox broadcaster Joe Davis, Aaron Judge
finally had his playoff moment. He had his playoff moment.
It was a home run in the fourth inning of
Game three of the divisional series that went off the
foul poll or the fifth inning wherever it was against Toronto.
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Yankee propaganda aside, all right, Yankee propaganda side. Judge is
the Matinee idol for this era of Yankee underachievement. So congratulations.
We are now talking about ten plus years, ten plus
years in the Bronx Bombers uniform and he has been
given a team that has always one of the top
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pay rolls in baseball, and yet in the playoffs bupkis
in terms of championships is thirty three. He'll turn thirty
four in April. Your athletic prime is ends about thirty two.
You can stretch you out a couple of years if
you're a superhero and all that, but that means we're
talking about the tail end. Even if Judge has another
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couple of good years in him, and for all of
the crooked numbers, for all of the gaudy numbers and
the little trophies he's gotten and all that stuff, and
all you guys that love that exit velocity porn, you
get your you're all excited there because of the exit velocity.
Aaron Judge is the he's reincarnated as he's like Donnie
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Baseball reincarnated or Dave Winfield that era of Yankee Baseball,
great regular season guy. And that's a team that's judged
on winning championships and all that. He's got no jewelry, well,
I'm sure he's got a nice jewelry. He probably got
a roll ex Ra two because he's got a lot
of money. But he's done the impossible being what many
believe is the top hitter in baseball since Barry Bonds
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most likely better though, because we don't believe Aaron Judges
on the sauce who knows and the clear and the
cream and somehow still not winning. Like you think of
every era of baseball with the Yankees, Babe Ruf, Lou Garrett, Jolton,
Joe DiMaggio, they all did it. Now the only ear
that didn't do it was Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, that
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was it. But all the legends in Monument Park, for
the most part, carried the damn franchise to the top
of the mountain. Now Aaron Judge again, he's rewriting the
Yankee history book here for all the wrong reasons. And
the man's going to finish his career as the best
you know what that means, as good as all the
US best player ever to wear the uniform without a championship.
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Like he's better than Don matting and he's better than
Dave Winfield. And yet they didn't go down the Canyon
of Heroes and either his Aaron Judge tik tik tik
tik tick. You can hear it, tik tik tik tik tick.
The clock is ticking, and the Yankees so called window
of opportunity, while it never really closes because the Yankees
meant a lot of money. In all reality, it's a
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very small window, very small window. It really is the
longest drought in modern Yankee history is seventeen years from
nineteen seventy nine to nineteen ninety five. And then they
had the Joe Tory run and with him as the manager,
and Paul O'Neill and Jeter and then Jorge Posad and
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Bernie Williams and all those guys, and now they're at
sixteen right now. The difference all right. And back then
you know they got they had maddingly in that run
where they didn't get it done, sad wistful eyes of
Donnie Baseball, who I believe is a coach with the
Blue Jays. Now they've got Aaron Judges blank postseason stare.
Now Judge put up great stants. Woo o O batt
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it six hundred had a home run off the foul
Pole had his mollmut. According to Joe Davis, a Fox
had his moment. Six RBIs four walks against Blue Jays.
Spoiler alert Vladimir Guerrero Junior was better. The other team's
top player was better than your team's best player. That's it.
And again, Aaron Judge, despite what Joe Davis said, his
signature moment is fumbling and bumbling and stumbling a ball
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in center field in Game five of the World Series,
where the Yankees had a dominating lead they were gonna
get right back in the World Series, heft it up.
That's his moment. And this series in the Bronx Vlattie
doing backflips and carrying Toronto while they're in Judge can
only watch and watch the celebration a little dazed and confused.
And so the Yankees used to own October Man. That
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was all Yankee baseball in October House of Horrors Yankee Stadium. Now,
I guess they rent by the hour. You know, it's
like a sleazy hotel. They rent by the hour, all
right now, Page two. So the big Komodo Dragon, the
room and the Bronx continues to be Will there actually
be legitimate changes? Every year the Yankees losing the playoffs,
and every year the question gets asked, are they going
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to whack this guy? Are they gonna whack that guy?
So you've got Aaron Boone who is always being discussed
as a guy's going to lose his job and all this. Well,
here is Aaron Boone asked whether or not he's going
to come back. Do you think Aaron Boone is going
to say, Ay, I shouldn't come back. I've done a
terrible job. B I don't want to come back because
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this team's a bunch of losers. Or see I expect
to be back. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next year?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No?
Speaker 6 (32:28):
I'm under contract, so no, I don't expect anything.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Can I ask a question? I would like to ask
you a question. What journalism school do they tell you
to apologize before you ask the question? Does that guy
have no balls? Can we plan that again? I believe
I just heard a supposed reporter apologize before asking the question,
(32:56):
like what are we doing? What are your buddies with him?
Going out drinking with them after the news? Take a lesson?
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, all right, I don't this is Aaron. I'm sorry,
I'm so sorry. Oh crap, all right, question, are Aaron
Boone and Brian Cashman the GM there in the danger zone?
Stranger danger? Are they in the danger zone in the Bronx?
So I am shaking my head. No, right, the Bronx
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isn't the bronx anymore. It's you know, it's not like
it used to be. It used to be you lose
in October and it would be like Halloween. There'd be
heads on spikes outside Yankee Stadium. Now it's modern deferred accountability.
It's uh, you know again. We say it every year.
These aren't you daddy's pinstripers or your granddaddy's pinstripers. Brian
(33:52):
Cashman has been running the show since Bill Clinton was
in the White House with Monica Lewinsky having a good time.
Yankee Baseball has turned in to academia. Aaron Boone, I
am convinced. Aaron Boon's not going anywhere. Brian Cashman's not
going anywhere. Heck, they could both get promoted. They are
tenured professors. At this point, you can't whack a tenured guy.
(34:16):
You gotta jump to a lot of hoops to get
rid of a tenured professor. They've got lifetime appointments to
the Bronx Ivy League is what they've got. And the
Steinbrenner klan that owns the team, the kids like, they're
not They're not the boss, right, the sequels not the equals.
We know. You look at all the legacy ownership groups
(34:37):
in sports. They're just not as good. They're just not
as good. Al Davis was a tyrant with the Raiders.
It didn't go well at the end of our life.
But his kid is a joke. Mark Davis with the
Raiders an embarrassment, right, and you give me to go down.
Then all the groups where the next generation takes over,
it's it gets worse. It does not get better, It
gets worse. Genie Buss horrific owner with the Lakers, right,
(34:59):
old man Gray, she was terrible and she's finally sold
the team, I guess eventually, but she wants to hold
on because she gets to go to cocktail parties in
Beverly Hills. But whatever. Fine. So the point is that
the old man, George Steinbrenner was lighting managers on fire
every other homestead. He had a revolving door with these
(35:19):
guys like Billy Martin. Now you're fired, two years later,
you're hired. You know that he had I think it
was eleven changes in like a four year Spann or
some ridiculous thing like that back in the day. But
now he fired Yogi Bear left him at the airport
in Chicago. Baseball legend that was the George Steinberners. Now
it's a daycare center right. The current group, it's just
(35:41):
a cash cow. It's the illusion of contention is all
you need. They're printing money, you know, the seventeen dollars
beers and all that. And I've been told by boots
on the ground that the luxury area behind home plate
is the top in baseball. Where they have the seafood
table with crab legs and high ends sushi, they have
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the Kobe beef over to the sun and all that.
It's just insane, right because they appeal to the Wall
Street the one percenters there in New York, and then
don't appeal to the to the bleacher creatures and all
that stuff. And so as long as they can convince
the fans that just making the playoffs there and that
you know, losing in the wild card of the divisional
round is equal to a championship. That's championship stands. The
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Yankees have become a theme park attraction. They really have.
You know, as long as the turnstiles are spinning and
you're riding the dumbbell ride and the Yes Network selling
their ads and they got all the spots paid for,
no one's storming the castle. It's not happening. Aaron Boone
could sleep walk, right, could sleep walk through a ninety
win season, and Brian Cashman's gonna still be ordering catered
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lunches for his army of nerds as Goose gotchis tremulus,
he said back in the day. Now, the real question
is who is going to pay the price for the
Yankees issues, Because why I believe Aaron Boone and Cashman
are safe, someone's going to lose their job. Normally, what
you do, as you say sacrifice one of the coaches
depends how upset you are. You might get rid of
the first base coach. If you're not that upset, you
get rid of the third base coach. If you're a
(37:06):
little more upset, If you're really really upset, you get
rid of the pitching coach and the hitting coach. The
one name that I will put there at the very
top is of my big board, not a list Terry
in England, my big board. The fall guy is going
to be Jazz Chisholm Garantee, Jazz Chisholm, free agent butcher
in the field, he was an All Star and he
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was caught yawning while trailing in an elimination game and
then mocked the people that made fun of him, yawning
during the game on the field, yawning while the game
was going on. He's the perfect scapegoat, bad clutch player,
not a big time player. Two eleven batting average in
the postseason, one eight two in the American League Divisional Series,
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underwhelming when it matters, underwhelming when it matters. And you know, meanwhile,
Brian Cashman is up in the suite stress testing the
next NERD approved depth chart, and there are already going over
who can we get on the waiver wire? Now, the
danger zone does not exist in the Bronx at this point.
It's more of a comfort zone. It's more of a
comfort zone than that. And as long as they're selling
(38:11):
the illusion of the evil Empire. No one is actually
in any real danger. Yankee baseball is where tenure meets mediocredy.
There's an intersection of tenure and mediocrety. All right, final
point to motown we go. And it looked early on
like it was going to be a bubbly bat for
the boys from Seattle. But then they had to play
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the rest of the game. And somebody named Riley Green
is somebody named Hobby Bias homeward four run, sixth inning,
and the Tigers are they ride. I'll roared back to
keep their season. I stand alive, staying up nine to three,
dominating win over the Mariners. On a sleepy Wednesday afternoon,
there a Game four of the American League Divisional Series,
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So that means we are gonna get a game five.
Tigers force a Game five by winning at Komerica Park
for the first time in more than a month. They
had lost eight straight home games. How embarrassing, Lou Whitaker
and Alan Tramball, Right, what are you doing? Chet? Lemon's
rolling over in his grave might swall with you. So
the decisive game of the series be Friday in Seattle.
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Cy young winner Derek Scoobel on the mound for the
MotorCity Kiddies against George Kirby. George Kirby. More on that
in a minute, But the better story he's in the
losing locker room as the Triedents blew a three to
nothing lead in the fifth inning. Question, how do you
react to Fox's Derek Jeters saying the Mariners? He said
(39:36):
on the Fox postgame he said the Mariners thought the
series was over, implying that that somehow is why they lost.
All right, So listen, Derek Jeter, legendary bad take, nonsense.
Manager Dan Wilson did the thing you can't do at
the time. He can't do it. He trusted his bullpen
and they the pipe burst on the bullpen under the
(39:58):
immense pressure of October baseball. So it started out with
this lefty, Gabe Spier who I looked at the they
had the stats on the broadcast. He had a zero
point seventy five ERA. He had allowed one run in
twelve innings since September sixth, So of course he came
in there and poured kerosene all over the game. And
(40:18):
then it was a funeral procession of relievers. People I've
never heard of. Eduard Bizardo and Carlos Vargas guys like that.
Just like bullpen spam came in and they would have
been better off throwing Robbie the Mariner fan crying, Craig
JJ in Renton, and no Stradinas on the mountain. They
all sucked at the time. He cannot suck, so Seattle.
What they needed was to call the people that used
(40:40):
to own the team from Nintendo and get Mario and Luigi.
Of course we know those are plumbers. Get them in
there to solve the bullpen. Some solid plumbers. So unsolicited device,
what can the Mariners do to beat Tigers Ace Trek
Scubel in Game five? Because everyone's go, oh, this game
the series over. Tigers have their guy, They're gonna win
Game five, go on to play Toronto in the American
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League Championship Series. So the mallord advice call it the
Schooble Survival Pack, the Schoolble Survival Pack. You don't have
to win. See the thing people don't understand when you
face a number one starting pitcher, Okay, you don't have
to win the duel. You just have to endure it,
(41:23):
all right, you just have to do it. Now, what
do I mean by that, like the Big Dumper cal
Riley and Friends. The mission is not conquest. The mission
is not to beat terror Scooble. It's to contain him,
meaning that you just have to end up in a
situation where where school is gonna go out. He'll slice
your lineup up like a sushi chef and just cut
(41:44):
you up with a nice big butcher's knife. The goal
is to keep pace. The goal is not to beat him.
It's just co author the chapter. Match it blow for blow,
inning for inning, have Kirby pitch well, go to the bullpen,
have some guys come in there and get it done.
And you just got to ride it out. And you
got to either have a zero zero score or a
(42:05):
one nothing score, or you have the lead when you
go to the tigers bullpen or where they go to
the bullpen, and that's when the ink starts to smudge
a little bit, and so that's what you get. You're
not gonna beat Scool, well more likely than not. But
if you have a shot, you just gotta you gotta
go blow for blow, blow for It's like a boxer.
You kind of sandbag a little bit early on, you know,
(42:26):
let the fight.
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Speaker 1 (42:34):
To get rid of him to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
This is one big.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Ben gets grilled, all right, Cooperlo.
Speaker 10 (42:43):
The Houston Astros are sticking with their leadership in GM
Dana Brown and manager Joe Spotted, despite their late season
collapse causing them to miss the playoffs for the first
time in a decade. Both of their contracts only run
through twenty twenty six, though. Is this going to be
a lame duck season next year for the Astros?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Well, every season is a lame duck season until they
get rid of Altube. I believe he's the last of
the cheaters still there. That's it. Yeah, tub's falling apart,
and it's just not a good team. And it sounds
like they're not going to spend a lot of money
to fatten up the roster. So it's a hot mess.
And yeah, I mean, these guys are not forever. They're
(43:22):
not long term Joe Spota and Dana Brown. So I'm
gonna go Yes, the Arrows point ds next.
Speaker 10 (43:27):
The San Antonio Spurs have officially listed Victor Wembin Yama
at seven foot five two and thirty five pounds. That's
two inches taller and twenty five pounds heavier than when
he entered the league. Ben, do you think we were
going to see an MVP type season from Wemby?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Yeah? What he did because he went to China and
he was hanging out with the monks, right, Wasn't that
what he did this offseason? That was what his big
preparation was. He had like the thing of silence and
all that. But I think the Spurs don only have
to like make the playoffs. That seems to be a
problem there. I mean, still, they should be better. He's great,
he's still fragile at two thirty five.
Speaker 10 (44:02):
Next, former NBA player Richard Jefferson said that most of
his peers would have gladly accepted an under the table
deal like Kawhi if they were in a similar position
to him. He went on to say that no active
performer player would be upset with Kawhi. Ben, do you
think that's true?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah? I mean from what I've heard, you know, this
has been going on around the NBA. He's not the
only He's been going on in the NFL. All the
sports how do we do you passed? How say win? Hey?
You go? Unlike the Yankees? I won? Unlike the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
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Speaker 6 (44:46):
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Speaker 10 (45:09):
All right, We're gonna start off with the question for you,
Ben Osky. This question is from Rob in the three
two one.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Hi Rob and the three two one as in Florida Coop.
Speaker 10 (45:18):
He wants to know, Ben, what is the most memorable
game you attended that you still tell friends about.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
H Well, I mean game for me, it was I'm
Gonna date myself, But it was Game seven of the
World Series, which are the Marlins and the Indians, two
teams I didn't care about. But it was it went
extra innings in Game seven. It was like the coolest
I've never been to a World Series before, so that
was that was absolutely bananas for me because you know,
(45:44):
it was the first time, you know, I've done something
like that. But I've been to some really good football
games over the years. But that's that's the one that
pops in my head right now. What's next, Coop? What
do we have?
Speaker 4 (45:53):
All right? This one, I imagine is probably just for
Lorena and I.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Uh okay, I mean, I would like to know I've met.
Speaker 10 (46:03):
I would like to know at what age did you
finally discover that Santa doesn't exist?
Speaker 1 (46:10):
I learned that Honikah Harry doesn't exist when I was.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
Eating Is that is that? Is that a thing? Honkah Harry?
That sounds scary?
Speaker 11 (46:16):
I feel like he would be like that scary hairy
guy who breaks up there.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
It was like a Saturday Night Live skit. Your Yeah,
now we have we have the Jews, have the mench
on the bench. That's what we've done. Oh that's right,
You've got the elf on the shelf. We've got the
mench on the bench. Go ahead, Lorena.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm as far as I'm concerned Santa Israel.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
So you guys just OK, that is true.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
I play Santa every year. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Someone has to be.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
I guess. I guess you have plenty of Stas.
Speaker 11 (46:50):
And there is this man who's lap I said on
at the mall every year too.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
Who do you think he is? Is some random guy,
some creeper. No, his name is Santa.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
The lesson of that, Coop, is, if you're a good
looking woman, Sanna never ends. If you're a fat, middle
aged man, Sanna ended a long time ago. Oh yeah,
go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Yeah, I think I was like twelve, maybe eleven twelve.
I feel mad for you. The magic is dead.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yeah, well find other magic. I guess what's next year? Coop?
It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
All right, This question is from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
Fergie wants to know how many pets do you have?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
I currently have one pet. It is a English bulldog
named Moxie. I used to have a dog named Luigi,
but the dog was a lunatic. We had to move
him to a second home. But Moxie is my dog.
Moxy helps me write the Mala monologues. She's with me
pretty much every night, and her job, and she's my assistant.
Her job is to fart while she lays on my legs.
That's your job, and she's really good at that. And
(47:56):
she knows. She does not move. She's the laziest creek
sure I've ever met in my life. She does, She's
so lazy. She when I walk into the room after
I get home from the radio station, she doesn't even
move her body. She'll maybe move her eyeballs, but that's it.
It's fascinating. That's not a garden dog. Well she looks intimidating,
(48:18):
but yeah, if you really want to get her fired up, though,
turn the vacuum on. She attacks the vacuum. She thinks
the vacuum is a demon, and she attacked. Other than that,
what about your ani pets?
Speaker 4 (48:30):
No, not to live with me.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
No, that's something that you might date.
Speaker 10 (48:34):
No, all right, Coop, I have two cats, two a
Penny and Piper, and they don't like me.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Oh I've never met them.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Well that's cats. What cats do they hiss? It was
one everyone knows that.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 10 (48:57):
Moving on, Yes, we have a question from Cowboy Killer here, Hi,
Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Do you reverse in a parking space? And why.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
I always try to back in to make a quick getaway.
In fact, as an adult, you're supposed to do that
because if there's a stressful situation, it's proven and you're
gonna be so flustered backing up, you might hit something.
But if you park backing in, you're good. You're good
to go. You always have to be prepared.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's an idea.
Speaker 11 (49:29):
I was actually watching this video the other day about
this guy and there was a big mudslide here in
California and his truck was parked and he tried to
back his truck up, but he actually backed it up
into the mudslide instead of away from the mudd.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
No, seriously, in a stressful situation, getting out of it.
Like if there's a disaster or something, you gotta get
out of Dodge, you got to back in. And the
other thing is, and I also I complain to my
wife all the time, you always got to leave at
least have to take a gas. Same reason. If there's
a disaster and you got to get out of Dodge
and you don't have any gas, you're pork You screw
really bad at that. It's a problem. You got to
(50:03):
do it. I'm telling you. You know, something bad happens,
you got to get out of there, you know, around here,
if there's an earthquake or something, you got to get
on the road and you're you know. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (50:11):
I don't usually back in, but I do feel fancy
when I do.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah. I love the fact I started driving there were
no backup cameras, and I feel like I'm cheating when
I have a backup camera. So it's kind of really cool.
I feel like it's easy, so easy, cool.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
I do it. Sometimes I mix it up.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
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Speaker 10 (50:45):
Hear cool donkey sausage? Hi, Donkey, I would like to
know what's your Halloween Friday Night plans this year?
Speaker 1 (50:53):
Yeah, So it's kind of cool. We we don't have
to do the radio show Friday night, so I'll probably
record a podcast in the morning, and then I think
I'm gonna go see my niece and nephew. They're little
kiddies and Uncle Benny will watch them trick or treat
and so that's my my tentative plan at this point.
What about you, Lorraine.
Speaker 11 (51:10):
I will be at the Boogie Bash Oge Boogie Bash Disneyland.
Oh yeah, and then I'll be staying in the Grand
California that night.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Look at you.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
I know it's gonna be a good night.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Is that a special event or something.
Speaker 11 (51:23):
Like that kind of Yeah, two hundred dollars special ticket
for the event, and then yeah, super fun. I'll get
all the candy and I'll bring it into the studio
and share.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
With you guys. Oh well, thank you. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (51:33):
I will be in Las Vegas v bas Las Vegas.
Speaker 10 (51:37):
I think specifically I will be Fremont Street, Oho Lost.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Hopefully you don't get shanked there and in a
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than others. Yet four baseball games. They made a big
deal about this being the last time there were four
baseball games in twenty twenty five. You have to wait
to the Cactus and Grapefruit League in twenty twenty six
for that. But I lead this hour from Los Angeles
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and from the desert to the sea to all of
southern California. We start there a night in the NLDS.
It was gonna be a knockout night if the Dodgers
could win the late game. The Phillies in town, beaten
and broken, mocked by their fan base after an embarrassing
couple of games in Philly and the Phillies looking to
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the Only time we use this term is in sports
stave off stave off elimination against the Doyers. So o,
dou't off you're watching it?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I was on.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
TBS, so whatever that's worth. Maybe you watched it. Maybe not,
But Kai Old Swarber, Kyle Schwarber, who's not gonna win
the National League MVP, but he'll finish runner up. Kyle
Schwarber Hombert not once but twice. Now, not all home
runs are the same. You know, you have like Yankee stadiums,
like Williams Sports, like a little league field, and then
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there's bigger ballparks, and then you know, Dodger State has
become a hitter's park. He used to be a pitcher's park.
Now it's a hitters park. But nothing, nothing can match
the majestic nature of a towering shot. That actually it
upset Tommy Lasorda because it hit Blue Heaven. The ball
was hit so high it actually skimmed Blue Heaven, and
Lasorda yelled down, what are you doing? Towering shot? It
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cleared the right field pavilion at Dodger Stadium, called the
bleachers for most other people, but the pavilion out there
Dodger Stadium in a three run fourth inning, a game
changing three run fourth innings, Kyle Swarber got it done
and Philadelphia will not be swept a domination situation, a
win over the Doyers in Game three of the National
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League Divisional Series on Wednesday night. There it was the
first schwarp bomb of this postseason, and it led all
of the National League in home runs. Of course, in
the American League had cal Raley, but anyway, nonetheless, Kyle Schwarber,
big home run there, big home run night, and the
first home run the Dodgers have allowed here in these
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playoffs to shorebur course, and it's been pretty good about
keeping the ball in the park. But Schwarber snapping an
over eight skid in the National League Divisional Series, and
he took a ninety six mile hour fastball and sent
it to the heavens off Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Schwarber becoming
just the second player to home or over that pavilion
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at Dodgers Stadium as pops got it done back in
the old days Willie Stargel nineteen sixty nine and did
it again in nineteen seventy three for the Pet spurg Pipes.
You know, it was a long time ago because it
was the Pirates who had a good team, and they
haven't had a good team in a very long time.
But so there you go. Paul went out of the ballpark,
which is very hard to do. Dodger Stadium. Game four
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will be a quick turnaround in the best of five series.
And we played later on Thursday, late afternoon on the
West coast, six o'clock on the East coast, three o'clock
at Dodgers Stadium local time. And the game started here
Phillies Aaron Nola. He pitched two innings. That's it. But
it was really Ranger Suarez who came in and the
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lone ranger on the mat. I had one run, five
hits over five innings and got it done. But the
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we will go. The better story always
in the losing locker room because that's where the drama is.
And we live for the drama. It's all about the
drama o rama. So we'll start there. The question for
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the esteem panel, who gets the largest part of the
Dave Roberts blame Bacon rapped hot Dog and if you've
ever been to a game in La, it doesn't matter
whether it's Dodgers or anything. Outside there's people with carts
and they are tapping the cart. Hot Dog, hot dog,
hot dog. That is what they That's the sign right there,
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all right. So on this one, I've got Buka de Beppo,
Autumn and puffy sticker, and we'll throw all of these
things together and we are going to make some heartburn medication,
because watching the Dodgers off and inspires heartburn. So a
why don't we just start with the man on the mound.
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The man on the mound, you're the big Boffo Soco,
big stud on the mound. You are the number one
pitcher for the Dodgers, Yamamoto. And this is not a
kid's birthday party. You did not need to turn out
to be a pinata. In that inning the Dodgers, he
got an early lead as Tommy Tanks went deep, there
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went and runs nothing. But you still have a lead.
And every inning that goes by where the Phillies do
not score, the tight took his syndrome works for those guys.
Get a little bit tighter, and a little bit tighter
and a little bit tighter, so he needed Yabam Mooto
to go Einstein brothers serve up a bunch of bagels
on the scoreboard. Now, he did start out pretty good,
retired nine of the first ten hitters. Then in the
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fourth inning, right then in the fourth inning, how did
that go? Not good? He wandered into a Buca di
beppo kitchen. I didn't know they had this at Dodger State.
Apparently do they got everything else there, So they have
a Buka di beppo kitchen. And Yamamoto walked in there
and he put on some cooking clothes, you know, you
had the cooking hat, the whole thing. And he actually
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served up a meatball. And I want to embellish it
because you know talk Rado can embellish it. It was
the size and I'm not going to go bigger. It
was the size of Jupiter. And Schwarbert put on a
bib and very odd to see this. You don't know
what this is. But Kyles swarb one of the BattleBox
he had a bib on and he smashed it to
the moon, to the moon, and suddenly the entire vibe
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flipped on the game. The ball actually landed. We checked
with NASA. It landed somewhere in Pasadena. The baseball landed
somewhere in Pasadena, and so it wasn't just Yamamoto the
Dodger bats mister seven hundred million dollar man show. Hel
Tani had as many hits as you and I had
zero for five. He's batting a buck seventy four, a
buck seventy four in this playoffs. It is Freddie Freeman,
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oh for three, Freddy's batt in two twenty two, and
it's a quarter of the side of the devil. And
those are a couple of your superstars the Philly you
give credit where credits You mentioned Rangers four as the
lone ranger who came in after Aaron Nola started, pitched
a couple innings and shut the Dodger lineup down, mowed
them down like child's play. And it's always fun when
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the Dodgers do not play one of the plus because
this era, you see Dave Roberts over there with that
we'll figure it out later. A look on his face, right, Roberts,
always standing there like waiting for a door dash delivery
from Emmy Femi, rather from Femi to give him the
door dash. No urgency, right, vintage. Now, as for the Phillies,
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I would like to nip something in the bud. Right now,
I'm partaking in some of the some of the narrative
coming out of Dodgers Stadium and a lot of the bloviating,
cheese steak loving pretzel eating Philadelphia sportsmans are like, Wow,
the Phillies have all the momentum. Now They've got all
the momentum. The only momentum I know is Uncle Mo,
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and he lives over in Jersey. I used to know
this guy named Ozzie momentum, but he kind of retired
from the show, so I don't know any other momentum
in that Momentum does not exist in sports. I will
die on that mountain because I'm right and everyone else
is an idiot. Momentum is simply an after the fact explanation.
If you believe in momentum, then the Dodgers should have
won this game. They had all the momentum. They won
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the first two games. They had nothing leading this game. You,
I'm a motor retired nine of the first ten batters.
There is no such thing as momentum. It is merely
an explanation for after the fact. Meaning is ignored. When
the team that is alleged to have all the momentum loses.
For example, we'll get to the American League later on
next hour. But the Yankees. I was told by Derek
Jeter on Fox that Yankees had all the momentum in
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that series because they won. They scored a bunch of
runs late in the blowout Game two, and then they
came back in one Game three, And so how'd that
work out?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It doesn't exist, all right. Now, now we get to
the good stuff. Now here's a batting practice fastball. As
a longtime radio professional text me from another location, Mallor.
He says, your night is made, and I said, you
know what, You're right. We had the rare and appropriate
sighting of playoff Kershaw. I am still getting messages from
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you idiots about a monologue I did when the Dodgers
did a mock state funeral when kurshed up it's just
final Hope game, and I pointed out what a failure
Kershaw has been as a Dodger. I was still got
a name of it this week. I got an email
the other day a couple day from so Oh, I heard
your monologue. You know always sar I used to like
your show, but which means you never liked my show, right,
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you never liked my show? But whatever. Fine. So Kershaw
was brought in. He was tasked with the Dodgers were trailing.
He was tasked with keeping la within arm's length, to
keep them in the game down three to one, give
them an opportunity, allow them a chance to come back
in the game. Against the Phillies, bullpen, set up the
choke factor. How do you set the choke factor up?
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You're within striking distance and that's what you gotta do. Okay,
So that was what he was asked to do. Kershaw say,
you know what I like charity. I'm going to be charitable.
And you get a hit, You get a hit, you
get a home run, you get a home run. You yeah,
the whole thing. The Philly hitters I actually saw on
the Turner broadcast. Their eyeballs looked like saucers. It was
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like saucers, very accommodating Clayton Kershaw. In fact, six of
the Phillies twelve hits, half of the hits for the
entire gate came against playoff Kershaw, Are you idiots defending
this guy? He got absolutely shelled your little hero got shelled,
Your little God, your little Demi God got shelled. J
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t Riamuto and Kyle Swarber hit bombs. Just classic, just classic. Anyway,
here is Clayton Kershaw pointing out that he was bad.
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Oh it's just a tough yeah, tough couple of the.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Seventh get played by Tayo. And then yeah, I just
didn't make enough good pitchres I was battling command. You know,
it's it's hard for you're trying to throw strikes as
opposed to get people out.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
So that was.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, just wasn't a funny okay, just not a funny thing.
All right, here's the question, how did you react to
Clayton Kershaw wetting the bed? He wetted the bed yet
again at Dodger Stadium in October. So that was nostalgic
with the Capitol n and it's fitting that should be
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his final outing as a Dodger. That should be it.
Either they're gonna get gonna lose this series, the Phillies
gonna come back and win the next two games and
Kershaw should go away retire after that, or the Dodgers
win this series and Kershaw should not be on the
roster in the National League Championship Series. He's washed up.
But if you want to break it down even deeper,
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you know what that really was. Watching Clayton Kershaw on
the mound in October baseball. That is autumn in Los Angeles.
It is autumn in Los Angeles. Now the rest of
the country gets pumpkin spice lattes, you get crisp cool air,
you get leaves changing colors, the signs of the seasons
in Los Angeles. You know that it's autumn when Clayton
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Kershaw is writing the vomit comet over the skies around
Dodger State, and that is autumn in La Clayton Kershaw
come boom to the boom, just like that. At this point,
it's muscle memory for Clayton Kershaft's like he can do
it blindfolded. It even looks like he's blindfolded on the
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mound in every October. The man steps on the mound,
He's got the shoulders slump, the face looks like he
just found out someone keyed his brand new tesla. You know,
Kershaw's serving up for right down the middle, right down
the middle, batting practice fastballs. He called those the five
thirty fastballs right down the middle and the phillies. They
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weren't so much swinging bats up there. They were swinging
tennis rackets, is what they were doing. And despite this
rich catalog of suck, every single time it is the
most fascinating thing the study of hero worship. Every single
time the Kershaw apologist in southern California crawl out from
under their palm trees and they give the same speech.
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I'll give out the number here and you know, I'll
open up her phone calls. Of course, the Kershaw Marching
and Shadows Society won't call in because there's really nothing
you can say. But I know the speech anyway. I've
heard it so many times over the last fifteen years.
I don't need you to call up and give me
the speech.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
It's well yeah but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but
he's a Hall of Famer, yeah but yeah, but yeah,
he's done so much for the city. Yeah but yeah, yeah,
or you have it's Dave Roberts fault. Yeah but yeah,
but yeah, but yeah. Okay, I've heard it all. I've
heard it all. I've seen it all.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Okay, right, so he did a lot for the city, great,
so did the guy who invented the snuggie. Uh, you
want to put him in the Hall of Fame doesn't
mean I want him pitching in a postseason game. I don't.
I don't. I doubt the mayor of Barf City. And
the numbers since twenty twenty three, Kershaw's era in the
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postseason is horrific. Since twenty eighteen, he's got an ERA
five point one, and since twenty twenty three has earnedrun
average is forty two point eight. That's not a misprint.
Forty two point eight postseason era since the start of
the twenty twenty three postseason. That is baseball armageddon. And
the body of language with Kershaw is another great part
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of this. Right. Nobody does it better the I just
gave up another bomb face than Clayton Kershaw. He's got
it down. It is art. It is performance art by
Clayton Kershaw. Head down, that little lip twitch thing that
he's got, a little shuffle around the mound. You cue
the organ music, the mock funeral and as Jim Nantz
would say, tradition unlike any other now that would be
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that should be it. And they're gonna give him like
seven statues because the Dodgers are all about that action now,
So why not give Kershaw a statue of him with
the head down, the shoulder shrug and all that worst
big game picture of the modern era. And it's not
even close. The guy is a picasso on a Wednesday
night against the Rock He's at Dodger Stadium and against
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the Phillies in a playoff game in October on a
Wednesday night. It's a finger painting. It's a kindergarten piece
of art, is what it is. And they had to
dig up the mound after every postseason Shelley. It's essentially
a crime scene when kurshuts out, so bad, guys, he bad,
all right? Last word to Chicago, we go And this
was not a closed out game. It could have been,
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but believe it or not, the Cubbies for ya, Femi
and Eugene in Chicago, and Tree and all my guys
in the mallad militia there in Chicago. The Cubs showed
that they are not ready to just roll over and
go on vacation and go down to CanCon Tee times
on hold, as Chicago put up a four run spot
on the Brewers start at Quinn Priester in the first thing.
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But this series, what is going on? All these runs
scored early and then not a whole bunch of runs
scored after that. But Quinn Priester on the mound was
amazing for the Brewers in the regular season in the
first inning and then the Cubs had to hold on.
They scored all of their runs in the first inning
and did just enough to win by the hair on
their chinny chin chin as they got a strong effort
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from the bullpen there the Brewers, but not enough so
they couldn't come all the way back four to three
the final in favor of the team from Chicago. So
we get a game four later on on Thursday. Now,
after the game, Quinn Priester, he played the blame game.
He pointed the finger entirely at himself. He said, quote
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everyone else played real well, with the exception of myself.
That's entirely on me. Close quote all right, question, does
Brewers starter Quinn Priester taking the blame work for you?
So the way I'll answer this is, I do enjoy
athletes just admitting they sucked. I think that's important. I'll
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give you a puffy sticker for owning it. That said,
it does not change the fact that he shriveled up
like a grape in the sun. Who this is a
guy that had been big balls, Bob our guy from Vegas,
big balls all regular season. And so I'll give you
a little bit of a golf clap. I'll call you
a mensch. Congratulations. You're a bench for saying that they
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don't hand out like parade floats and all that for
quality quotes. In Milwaukee had opportunities like they were playing
with matches. Eventually they got burned here and now they
got to sweat it out. Right, Now you got to
sweat it out. You get you know, game four suddenly
becomes a bigger deal. I would play Game four like
it's Game five and you have Game five in your
back pocket. But the Cubs, now they can smell blood
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in the ivy. Should not be blood in the ivy.
Maybe Doc Mike puts them out there in the ivy.
But Chicago, they've turned this thing into a little bit
more of a street fight. Not quite there yet. There
is no such thing as momentum. But in terms of
circling back to Quinn Priester taking the blame and all that,
a guy that dominated during the regular season. Remember, as
the baseball marketing slogan from years ago went, legends are
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born in October. Well, legends also die in October. If
you want reference, look at Clayton Kershaw for an example.
So you've got to do better, and you've got to
be better, and there's no guarantee this guy gets another start.
That could all she wrote. That could be the end
of the road in terms of playoff baseball for Quinn Priester.
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We talked a lot about the National League as the
Phillies and the Cubs stay alive. So we will get
game fours in the National League. But we'll start out
here in the Bronx the Hour of American League Divisional
Championship Series baseball. And we'll start out with a game
that could have ended at all, Game four of the
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American League Divisional Series. There the Yankees looking to beat
the Blue Jays and force a winner take all game
back in all, come, did you watch? Perhaps not well,
we got your cover. We got you covered on this
because we have nothing else to do. We wished an
entire day watching sports. Vladimir Guerrero Junior and that cheating
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astro George Springer each drove in a run, and eight
Toronto pitchers, eight Toronto pitchers shut down the mighty New
York Yankees lineup five to two the final on Wednesday night.
Than that sent the Blue Jays flying high to the
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American League Championship Series. They've reached the final four for
the first time in nine years. Toronto smacked out twelve
hits in smothering the Yankees. The a L East champion
Toronto Blue Jays. Well, now move on. They take the
divisional series three games to one. They will host game
number one in best of seven American League Championship Series.
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That'll be on Sunday. We'll be watching football, but they'll
be playing baseball there against either the Tigers or the
Seattle Mariners, and those teams are set to decide their
playoff series. That'll be on Friday night in game number five,
Game number five there in Seattle. More on that in
a minute. But the better story as we talk Yankees
and Blue Jays is in lou using locker room. And
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it's always a special time when the Yankees lose in
the playoffs. I know Supermarket Steve always looks forward to it.
He can't get enough of it. So let us discuss
the question. We'll focus in on the big Ragou, the
big ragu for the Yankees. So what does this latest
playoff loss due for airin Judges Yankees resume? What does
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it do? You go to his Wikipedia page, you go
to his Baseball reference page. What does this do? So
I've got rewriting, academia and Nintendo, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are gonna make
your Babushka's favorite soggy nachos, soggy ballpark nachos. Yeah. See,
the nachos are like it's like my theory on fast food,
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and I'm never wrong about this. I'm never My theory
on fast food is every second that goes by once
you pick up your food. Like I used to eat
fast food all time, but when you get the fast food,
you've got to eat it right away because every second
it goes it degrades. The quality of the meal goes down,
similar to nachos. Like it's like when I was a kid,
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my mom used to make she give me cereal, like
give most kids you get cereal when you're a kid,
and I would get it and it would always bother
me because I had to eat it so fast, because
you don't want to eat soggy cereal because the milk and
the cereal. So nachos are the same thing. But back
to the point, So what does this latest playoff loss
do for Aaron Judges Yankees resume so number Aaron Judge
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is a magician? Can we all agree on that? Does
anyone disagree? Anybody in the back of the room disagree?
Aaron Judge is a magician. He is untract to do
the impossible. They and imaginable, the most mind blowing trick around.
Have a full career wearing pinstripes and get no bling,
bling abra caudabra, hocus pocus. It's wild. It is insane
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to the that here we are and Judge has already
passed his athletic prime and has nothing in terms of championships,
which is how you are judged as a Yankee. Now
here's Aaron Jude, but we'll go into the locker room.
Here's Aaron Judge talking about yet another ending to a
Yankee season that ended the wrong way. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
No, I like our chances, and I like our chances
all year as a special group. And it just sucks
for the guys that, yes, it might be their last
time wearing Fenn shripes. You know, I get a chance
to have a long run with him and in the championship.
You know, especially to the fans all year that have
been you know, showing up supporting us, even these postseason games,
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even when we would get down, you know, they stayed
right in their seats, you know, cheering us on. So
it's just disappointed. We let all those guys down.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So it's pretty standard, pretty standard there from Aaron Judge
or the captain of the Yankees. It is ironic that
John Hayman and one of the great f ups ever
by a baseball insider when he reported that Arson Judge
was going to the Giants, but yet in the playoffs
for the Yankees, the teams Aaron Judge plays for. It's
an Arson job at least, though I'm gonna be Benny
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Bright's people say to negative Malor, I'll be Benny Bright's
ot here, because it's not all bad for Aaron Judge,
at least. According to Fox broadcaster Joe Davis, Aaron Judge
finally had his playoff moment. He had his playoff moment.
It was a home run in the fourth inning of
Game three of the divisional series that went off the
foul poll or the fifth inning wherever it was against Toronto.
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Yankee propaganda aside, all right, Yankee propaganda side. Judge is
the Matinee idol for this era of Yankee underachievement. So congratulations.
We are now talking about ten plus years, ten plus
years in the Bronx Bombers uniform and he has been
given a team that has always one of the top
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pay rolls in baseball, and yet in the playoffs bupkis
in terms of championships is thirty three. He'll turn thirty
four in April. Your athletic prime is ends about thirty two.
You can stretch you out a couple of years if
you're a superhero and all that, but that means we're
talking about the tail end. Even if Judge has another
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couple of good years in him, and for all of
the crooked numbers, for all of the gaudy numbers and
the little trophies he's gotten and all that stuff, and
all you guys that love that exit velocity porn, you
get your you're all excited there because of the exit velocity.
Aaron Judge is the he's reincarnated as he's like Donnie
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Baseball reincarnated or Dave Winfield that era of Yankee Baseball,
great regular season guy. And that's a team that's judged
on winning championships and all that. He's got no jewelry, well,
I'm sure he's got a nice jewelry. He probably got
a roll ex Ra two because he's got a lot
of money. But he's done the impossible being what many
believe is the top hitter in baseball since Barry Bonds
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most likely better though, because we don't believe Aaron Judges
on the sauce who knows and the clear and the
cream and somehow still not winning. Like you think of
every era of baseball with the Yankees, Babe Ruf, Lou Garrett, Jolton,
Joe DiMaggio, they all did it. Now the only ear
that didn't do it was Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, that
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was it. But all the legends in Monument Park, for
the most part, carried the damn franchise to the top
of the mountain. Now Aaron Judge again, he's rewriting the
Yankee history book here for all the wrong reasons. And
the man's going to finish his career as the best
you know what that means, as good as all the
US best player ever to wear the uniform without a championship.
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Like he's better than Don matting and he's better than
Dave Winfield. And yet they didn't go down the Canyon
of Heroes and either his Aaron Judge tik tik tik
tik tick. You can hear it, tik tik tik tik tick.
The clock is ticking, and the Yankees so called window
of opportunity, while it never really closes because the Yankees
meant a lot of money. In all reality, it's a
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very small window, very small window. It really is the
longest drought in modern Yankee history is seventeen years from
nineteen seventy nine to nineteen ninety five. And then they
had the Joe Tory run and with him as the manager,
and Paul O'Neill and Jeter and then Jorge Posad and
(30:23):
Bernie Williams and all those guys, and now they're at
sixteen right now. The difference all right. And back then
you know they got they had maddingly in that run
where they didn't get it done, sad wistful eyes of
Donnie Baseball, who I believe is a coach with the
Blue Jays. Now they've got Aaron Judges blank postseason stare.
Now Judge put up great stants. Woo o O batt
(30:49):
it six hundred had a home run off the foul
Pole had his mollmut. According to Joe Davis, a Fox
had his moment. Six RBIs four walks against Blue Jays.
Spoiler alert Vladimir Guerrero Junior was better. The other team's
top player was better than your team's best player. That's it.
And again, Aaron Judge, despite what Joe Davis said, his
signature moment is fumbling and bumbling and stumbling a ball
(31:12):
in center field in Game five of the World Series,
where the Yankees had a dominating lead they were gonna
get right back in the World Series, heft it up.
That's his moment. And this series in the Bronx Vlattie
doing backflips and carrying Toronto while they're in Judge can
only watch and watch the celebration a little dazed and confused.
And so the Yankees used to own October Man. That
(31:33):
was all Yankee baseball in October House of Horrors Yankee Stadium. Now,
I guess they rent by the hour. You know, it's
like a sleazy hotel. They rent by the hour, all
right now, Page two. So the big Komodo Dragon, the
room and the Bronx continues to be Will there actually
be legitimate changes? Every year the Yankees losing the playoffs,
and every year the question gets asked, are they going
(31:55):
to whack this guy? Are they gonna whack that guy?
So you've got Aaron Boone who is always being discussed
as a guy's going to lose his job and all this. Well,
here is Aaron Boone asked whether or not he's going
to come back. Do you think Aaron Boone is going
to say, Ay, I shouldn't come back. I've done a
terrible job. B I don't want to come back because
(32:16):
this team's a bunch of losers. Or see I expect
to be back. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next year?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No?
Speaker 6 (32:28):
I'm under contract, so no, I don't expect anything.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Can I ask a question? I would like to ask
you a question. What journalism school do they tell you
to apologize before you ask the question? Does that guy
have no balls? Can we plan that again? I believe
I just heard a supposed reporter apologize before asking the question,
(32:56):
like what are we doing? What are your buddies with him?
Going out drinking with them after the news? Take a lesson?
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, all right, I don't this is Aaron. I'm sorry,
I'm so sorry. Oh crap, all right, question, are Aaron
Boone and Brian Cashman the GM there in the danger zone?
Stranger danger? Are they in the danger zone in the Bronx?
So I am shaking my head. No, right, the Bronx
(33:32):
isn't the bronx anymore. It's you know, it's not like
it used to be. It used to be you lose
in October and it would be like Halloween. There'd be
heads on spikes outside Yankee Stadium. Now it's modern deferred accountability.
It's uh, you know again. We say it every year.
These aren't you daddy's pinstripers or your granddaddy's pinstripers. Brian
(33:52):
Cashman has been running the show since Bill Clinton was
in the White House with Monica Lewinsky having a good time.
Yankee Baseball has turned in to academia. Aaron Boone, I
am convinced. Aaron Boon's not going anywhere. Brian Cashman's not
going anywhere. Heck, they could both get promoted. They are
tenured professors. At this point, you can't whack a tenured guy.
(34:16):
You gotta jump to a lot of hoops to get
rid of a tenured professor. They've got lifetime appointments to
the Bronx Ivy League is what they've got. And the
Steinbrenner klan that owns the team, the kids like, they're
not They're not the boss, right, the sequels not the equals.
We know. You look at all the legacy ownership groups
(34:37):
in sports. They're just not as good. They're just not
as good. Al Davis was a tyrant with the Raiders.
It didn't go well at the end of our life.
But his kid is a joke. Mark Davis with the
Raiders an embarrassment, right, and you give me to go down.
Then all the groups where the next generation takes over,
it's it gets worse. It does not get better, It
gets worse. Genie Buss horrific owner with the Lakers, right,
(34:59):
old man Gray, she was terrible and she's finally sold
the team, I guess eventually, but she wants to hold
on because she gets to go to cocktail parties in
Beverly Hills. But whatever. Fine. So the point is that
the old man, George Steinbrenner was lighting managers on fire
every other homestead. He had a revolving door with these
(35:19):
guys like Billy Martin. Now you're fired, two years later,
you're hired. You know that he had I think it
was eleven changes in like a four year Spann or
some ridiculous thing like that back in the day. But
now he fired Yogi Bear left him at the airport
in Chicago. Baseball legend that was the George Steinberners. Now
it's a daycare center right. The current group, it's just
(35:41):
a cash cow. It's the illusion of contention is all
you need. They're printing money, you know, the seventeen dollars
beers and all that. And I've been told by boots
on the ground that the luxury area behind home plate
is the top in baseball. Where they have the seafood
table with crab legs and high ends sushi, they have
(36:01):
the Kobe beef over to the sun and all that.
It's just insane, right because they appeal to the Wall
Street the one percenters there in New York, and then
don't appeal to the to the bleacher creatures and all
that stuff. And so as long as they can convince
the fans that just making the playoffs there and that
you know, losing in the wild card of the divisional
round is equal to a championship. That's championship stands. The
(36:23):
Yankees have become a theme park attraction. They really have.
You know, as long as the turnstiles are spinning and
you're riding the dumbbell ride and the Yes Network selling
their ads and they got all the spots paid for,
no one's storming the castle. It's not happening. Aaron Boone
could sleep walk, right, could sleep walk through a ninety
win season, and Brian Cashman's gonna still be ordering catered
(36:45):
lunches for his army of nerds as Goose gotchis tremulus,
he said back in the day. Now, the real question
is who is going to pay the price for the
Yankees issues, Because why I believe Aaron Boone and Cashman
are safe, someone's going to lose their job. Normally, what
you do, as you say sacrifice one of the coaches
depends how upset you are. You might get rid of
the first base coach. If you're not that upset, you
get rid of the third base coach. If you're a
(37:06):
little more upset, If you're really really upset, you get
rid of the pitching coach and the hitting coach. The
one name that I will put there at the very
top is of my big board, not a list Terry
in England, my big board. The fall guy is going
to be Jazz Chisholm Garantee, Jazz Chisholm, free agent butcher
in the field, he was an All Star and he
(37:29):
was caught yawning while trailing in an elimination game and
then mocked the people that made fun of him, yawning
during the game on the field, yawning while the game
was going on. He's the perfect scapegoat, bad clutch player,
not a big time player. Two eleven batting average in
the postseason, one eight two in the American League Divisional Series,
(37:50):
underwhelming when it matters, underwhelming when it matters. And you know, meanwhile,
Brian Cashman is up in the suite stress testing the
next NERD approved depth chart, and there are already going over
who can we get on the waiver wire? Now, the
danger zone does not exist in the Bronx at this point.
It's more of a comfort zone. It's more of a
comfort zone than that. And as long as they're selling
(38:11):
the illusion of the evil Empire. No one is actually
in any real danger. Yankee baseball is where tenure meets mediocredy.
There's an intersection of tenure and mediocrety. All right, final
point to motown we go. And it looked early on
like it was going to be a bubbly bat for
the boys from Seattle. But then they had to play
(38:32):
the rest of the game. And somebody named Riley Green
is somebody named Hobby Bias homeward four run, sixth inning,
and the Tigers are they ride. I'll roared back to
keep their season. I stand alive, staying up nine to three,
dominating win over the Mariners. On a sleepy Wednesday afternoon,
there a Game four of the American League Divisional Series,
(38:54):
So that means we are gonna get a game five.
Tigers force a Game five by winning at Komerica Park
for the first time in more than a month. They
had lost eight straight home games. How embarrassing, Lou Whitaker
and Alan Tramball, Right, what are you doing? Chet? Lemon's
rolling over in his grave might swall with you. So
the decisive game of the series be Friday in Seattle.
(39:16):
Cy young winner Derek Scoobel on the mound for the
MotorCity Kiddies against George Kirby. George Kirby. More on that
in a minute, But the better story he's in the
losing locker room as the Triedents blew a three to
nothing lead in the fifth inning. Question, how do you
react to Fox's Derek Jeters saying the Mariners? He said
(39:36):
on the Fox postgame he said the Mariners thought the
series was over, implying that that somehow is why they lost.
All right, So listen, Derek Jeter, legendary bad take, nonsense.
Manager Dan Wilson did the thing you can't do at
the time. He can't do it. He trusted his bullpen
and they the pipe burst on the bullpen under the
(39:58):
immense pressure of October baseball. So it started out with
this lefty, Gabe Spier who I looked at the they
had the stats on the broadcast. He had a zero
point seventy five ERA. He had allowed one run in
twelve innings since September sixth, So of course he came
in there and poured kerosene all over the game. And
(40:18):
then it was a funeral procession of relievers. People I've
never heard of. Eduard Bizardo and Carlos Vargas guys like that.
Just like bullpen spam came in and they would have
been better off throwing Robbie the Mariner fan crying, Craig
JJ in Renton, and no Stradinas on the mountain. They
all sucked at the time. He cannot suck, so Seattle.
What they needed was to call the people that used
(40:40):
to own the team from Nintendo and get Mario and Luigi.
Of course we know those are plumbers. Get them in
there to solve the bullpen. Some solid plumbers. So unsolicited device,
what can the Mariners do to beat Tigers Ace Trek
Scubel in Game five? Because everyone's go, oh, this game
the series over. Tigers have their guy, They're gonna win
Game five, go on to play Toronto in the American
(41:03):
League Championship Series. So the mallord advice call it the
Schooble Survival Pack, the Schoolble Survival Pack. You don't have
to win. See the thing people don't understand when you
face a number one starting pitcher, Okay, you don't have
to win the duel. You just have to endure it,
(41:23):
all right, you just have to do it. Now, what
do I mean by that, like the Big Dumper cal
Riley and Friends. The mission is not conquest. The mission
is not to beat terror Scooble. It's to contain him,
meaning that you just have to end up in a
situation where where school is gonna go out. He'll slice
your lineup up like a sushi chef and just cut
(41:44):
you up with a nice big butcher's knife. The goal
is to keep pace. The goal is not to beat him.
It's just co author the chapter. Match it blow for blow,
inning for inning, have Kirby pitch well, go to the bullpen,
have some guys come in there and get it done.
And you just got to ride it out. And you
got to either have a zero zero score or a
(42:05):
one nothing score, or you have the lead when you
go to the tigers bullpen or where they go to
the bullpen, and that's when the ink starts to smudge
a little bit, and so that's what you get. You're
not gonna beat Scool, well more likely than not. But
if you have a shot, you just gotta you gotta
go blow for blow, blow for It's like a boxer.
You kind of sandbag a little bit early on, you know,
(42:26):
let the fight.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
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Speaker 1 (42:34):
To get rid of him to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
This is one big.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Ben gets grilled, all right, Cooperlo.
Speaker 10 (42:43):
The Houston Astros are sticking with their leadership in GM
Dana Brown and manager Joe Spotted, despite their late season
collapse causing them to miss the playoffs for the first
time in a decade. Both of their contracts only run
through twenty twenty six, though. Is this going to be
a lame duck season next year for the Astros?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Well, every season is a lame duck season until they
get rid of Altube. I believe he's the last of
the cheaters still there. That's it. Yeah, tub's falling apart,
and it's just not a good team. And it sounds
like they're not going to spend a lot of money
to fatten up the roster. So it's a hot mess.
And yeah, I mean, these guys are not forever. They're
(43:22):
not long term Joe Spota and Dana Brown. So I'm
gonna go Yes, the Arrows point ds next.
Speaker 10 (43:27):
The San Antonio Spurs have officially listed Victor Wembin Yama
at seven foot five two and thirty five pounds. That's
two inches taller and twenty five pounds heavier than when
he entered the league. Ben, do you think we were
going to see an MVP type season from Wemby?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Yeah? What he did because he went to China and
he was hanging out with the monks, right, Wasn't that
what he did this offseason? That was what his big
preparation was. He had like the thing of silence and
all that. But I think the Spurs don only have
to like make the playoffs. That seems to be a
problem there. I mean, still, they should be better. He's great,
he's still fragile at two thirty five.
Speaker 10 (44:02):
Next, former NBA player Richard Jefferson said that most of
his peers would have gladly accepted an under the table
deal like Kawhi if they were in a similar position
to him. He went on to say that no active
performer player would be upset with Kawhi. Ben, do you
think that's true?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah? I mean from what I've heard, you know, this
has been going on around the NBA. He's not the
only He's been going on in the NFL. All the
sports how do we do you passed? How say win? Hey?
You go? Unlike the Yankees? I won? Unlike the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
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Speaker 1 (44:42):
It's now time for time for Harry. Harry, Honey. What
do you ask?
Speaker 6 (44:46):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Twitter? Send us your questions on Twitter now on Twitter
ex what I wish? Same thing it is, Ask Ben.
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
For the of the hour, you can send those in
using the hashtag ask Ben now for the reading of
the questions, but it will not sound like he's reading Kopolo.
Speaker 10 (45:09):
All right, We're gonna start off with the question for you,
Ben Osky. This question is from Rob in the three
two one.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Hi Rob and the three two one as in Florida Coop.
Speaker 10 (45:18):
He wants to know, Ben, what is the most memorable
game you attended that you still tell friends about.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
H Well, I mean game for me, it was I'm
Gonna date myself, But it was Game seven of the
World Series, which are the Marlins and the Indians, two
teams I didn't care about. But it was it went
extra innings in Game seven. It was like the coolest
I've never been to a World Series before, so that
was that was absolutely bananas for me because you know,
(45:44):
it was the first time, you know, I've done something
like that. But I've been to some really good football
games over the years. But that's that's the one that
pops in my head right now. What's next, Coop? What
do we have?
Speaker 4 (45:53):
All right? This one, I imagine is probably just for
Lorena and I.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Uh okay, I mean, I would like to know I've met.
Speaker 10 (46:03):
I would like to know at what age did you
finally discover that Santa doesn't exist?
Speaker 1 (46:10):
I learned that Honikah Harry doesn't exist when I was.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
Eating Is that is that? Is that a thing? Honkah Harry?
That sounds scary?
Speaker 11 (46:16):
I feel like he would be like that scary hairy
guy who breaks up there.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
It was like a Saturday Night Live skit. Your Yeah,
now we have we have the Jews, have the mench
on the bench. That's what we've done. Oh that's right,
You've got the elf on the shelf. We've got the
mench on the bench. Go ahead, Lorena.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm as far as I'm concerned Santa Israel.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
So you guys just OK, that is true.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
I play Santa every year. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Someone has to be.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
I guess. I guess you have plenty of Stas.
Speaker 11 (46:50):
And there is this man who's lap I said on
at the mall every year too.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
Who do you think he is? Is some random guy,
some creeper. No, his name is Santa.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
The lesson of that, Coop, is, if you're a good
looking woman, Sanna never ends. If you're a fat, middle
aged man, Sanna ended a long time ago. Oh yeah,
go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Yeah, I think I was like twelve, maybe eleven twelve.
I feel mad for you. The magic is dead.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yeah, well find other magic. I guess what's next year? Coop?
It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
All right, This question is from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
Fergie wants to know how many pets do you have?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
I currently have one pet. It is a English bulldog
named Moxie. I used to have a dog named Luigi,
but the dog was a lunatic. We had to move
him to a second home. But Moxie is my dog.
Moxy helps me write the Mala monologues. She's with me
pretty much every night, and her job, and she's my assistant.
Her job is to fart while she lays on my legs.
That's your job, and she's really good at that. And
(47:56):
she knows. She does not move. She's the laziest creek
sure I've ever met in my life. She does, She's
so lazy. She when I walk into the room after
I get home from the radio station, she doesn't even
move her body. She'll maybe move her eyeballs, but that's it.
It's fascinating. That's not a garden dog. Well she looks intimidating,
(48:18):
but yeah, if you really want to get her fired up, though,
turn the vacuum on. She attacks the vacuum. She thinks
the vacuum is a demon, and she attacked. Other than that,
what about your ani pets?
Speaker 4 (48:30):
No, not to live with me.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
No, that's something that you might date.
Speaker 10 (48:34):
No, all right, Coop, I have two cats, two a
Penny and Piper, and they don't like me.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Oh I've never met them.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Well that's cats. What cats do they hiss? It was
one everyone knows that.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 10 (48:57):
Moving on, Yes, we have a question from Cowboy Killer here, Hi,
Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Do you reverse in a parking space? And why.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
I always try to back in to make a quick getaway.
In fact, as an adult, you're supposed to do that
because if there's a stressful situation, it's proven and you're
gonna be so flustered backing up, you might hit something.
But if you park backing in, you're good. You're good
to go. You always have to be prepared.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's an idea.
Speaker 11 (49:29):
I was actually watching this video the other day about
this guy and there was a big mudslide here in
California and his truck was parked and he tried to
back his truck up, but he actually backed it up
into the mudslide instead of away from the mudd.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
No, seriously, in a stressful situation, getting out of it.
Like if there's a disaster or something, you gotta get
out of Dodge, you got to back in. And the
other thing is, and I also I complain to my
wife all the time, you always got to leave at
least have to take a gas. Same reason. If there's
a disaster and you got to get out of Dodge
and you don't have any gas, you're pork You screw
really bad at that. It's a problem. You got to
(50:03):
do it. I'm telling you. You know, something bad happens,
you got to get out of there, you know, around here,
if there's an earthquake or something, you got to get
on the road and you're you know. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (50:11):
I don't usually back in, but I do feel fancy
when I do.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah. I love the fact I started driving there were
no backup cameras, and I feel like I'm cheating when
I have a backup camera. So it's kind of really cool.
I feel like it's easy, so easy, cool.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
I do it. Sometimes I mix it up.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Yeah, yeah, all right, What is next? It's ask Ben?
Your questions are answers. If you like this segment, it's
every week and we do something on people who have
accused me of ripping this off on the Fifth Hour
Mail Back. It is totally different than Ask Ben. It's
totally different than Asben. But if you love the Fifth
Hour podcast, we do something on Sunday which is not
like this at all. What's next?
Speaker 10 (50:45):
Hear cool donkey sausage? Hi, Donkey, I would like to
know what's your Halloween Friday Night plans this year?
Speaker 1 (50:53):
Yeah, So it's kind of cool. We we don't have
to do the radio show Friday night, so I'll probably
record a podcast in the morning, and then I think
I'm gonna go see my niece and nephew. They're little
kiddies and Uncle Benny will watch them trick or treat
and so that's my my tentative plan at this point.
What about you, Lorraine.
Speaker 11 (51:10):
I will be at the Boogie Bash Oge Boogie Bash Disneyland.
Oh yeah, and then I'll be staying in the Grand
California that night.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Look at you.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
I know it's gonna be a good night.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Is that a special event or something.
Speaker 11 (51:23):
Like that kind of Yeah, two hundred dollars special ticket
for the event, and then yeah, super fun. I'll get
all the candy and I'll bring it into the studio
and share.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
With you guys. Oh well, thank you. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (51:33):
I will be in Las Vegas v bas Las Vegas.
Speaker 10 (51:37):
I think specifically I will be Fremont Street, Oho Lost.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Hopefully you don't get shanked there and in a
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